He said that although a total of 52 Opposition Members of Parliament had participated in the bloc voting, the voting paper of the 52nd lawmaker, Julian Tan Kok Ping (DAP-Stampin), was not signed by G. Manivannan (PKR-Kapar), who had called for the vote. "When I consider all this, there is no other way you can describe the bloc voting that day other than being frivolous. The proposal had been put forward by Manivannan as the Opposition MPs had outnumbered BN MPs at the time. In the subsequent bloc voting, the bill squeezed through on a 52-51 vote with Pas MPs abstaining from the vote. Opposition lawmakers had argued that several BN MPs had entered the Dewan late and that their vote should not count.

Source: New Strait Times November 27, 2017 08:48 UTC